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"Communication in Sports Influences the Performance of the Team." Psychology Campus - Information Regarding Psychology and It's Disciplines. Web. 21 Nov. 2010. . This article talks about how communication is used in sports. There are a list of different ways to communicate in sports. It shows how much better a team can be when they communicate with each other.

Silvestri, Lynette, and Marc Bonis. "Changes in Health Knowledge." Education 130.2 (2209): 271-273. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 3 Nov. 2010 This article is about the health knowledge of college students. It gives statistics from surveys done on college students and analyzes the data. Also, information on what university are doing to improve the health knowledge of their students is given.

Nemeth, Dezso, et al. "Learning in Autism: Implicitly Superb." PLoS ONE 7 (2010): 1-7. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 9 Nov. 2010. Autistic people have memory and learning impairments, but recently researchers have studied how implicit learning in ASD is affected as well. ASD stands for Autism Spectrum Disorder, which includes social, motor, and communicative impairments. Implicit learning is the developing of a skill or information without consciousness to what was learned. Neurocognitive (thought) studies, and implicit cognition (unconcious influences such as knowledge) studies have received less attention. Studies have shown that children with Asberger's syndrome have better cognitive abilities that children with normal autism. Autistic children are more likely to forget the skills they have learned over the long term, but can use the results of implicit learning over a long period of time. ASD children compared to controlled show similar learning patterns in specific and general skill learning.

Gira, Kathy. "Understanding and Facilitating Reading Comprehension in Children with Autism." Illinois Reading Council Journal 38.2 (2010): 27-34. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 16 Nov. 2010. Autism is found to be four more times common in boys than girls. People diagnosed with ASD either are high functioning or low functioning. The people who are considered high functioning are categorized as having Aspergers Syndrom in the autism spectrum. People diagnosed with AS are being placed in regular classrooms because typically they have average intelligence, or above average intelligence. Children with autism have difficulties understanding important information, literal thinking styles, comprehending and thinking abstractly, and have difficulties with their organization skills. Because of their inability to think abstractly, they have a difficult time learning how to read. Autistic children don't have a great attention span, they have trouble learning the rules of grammar, and they lack the motivation to learn to read. Hyperlexia is a term used to describe some autistic people. It means they have an understanding of the pronunciation and recognition of a word, but they lack the comprehension of the meaning of the word.

On this opinion page for The New York Times, Stephan Dubner talks about the effects of having mandatory calorie postings for certain restraunts. He believes that because the calorie content is shown, people bought more food.

American Advertising Federation. "College Alcohol Advertising." Aaf.org. Apr. 2007. Web. 14 Nov. 2010. The main concern of this article was to prohibit the playing of alcohol promoting commercials during college sporting games. As a government agency, it talks about their stance on the argument of commercials being geared towards minors and what information they have to support their claims. It also explains what issues are raised, what congress and the governmet is doing to stop this, as well as the problems that come with this particular issue.

American Academy of Family Physicians. "Alcohol Advertising and Youth (Position Paper)." Aafp.org. 2010. Web. 14 Nov. 2010. Youth exposure to alcohol advertising, the targeting of youth, morbidity, mortality, and statistics are all key points in this document. Dates, age groups, money and legal issues are all talked about in this paper and using these in my essay will certainly bring out more credible information to this side of the argument. This source talks almost every main issue that has to do with underage drinking and teenagers. It gives convincing evidence that alcohol ads are being aimed at a crowd who isnt legal to consume them, but it also questions the morality of doing this by giving facts about alcohol related deaths in minors.

Zawila, Laurie, Cathy-Sue Steib, and Barbara Hoogenboom. "The Female Collegiate Cross-Country Runner: Nutritional Knowledge and Attitudes." Journal of Athletic Training 38.1 (2003): 67-74. Print.

Byrne, Angela, John MacDonald, and Sue Buckley. "Reading, language and memory skills: A comparative longitudinal study of children with Down syndrome and their mainstream peers." British Journal of Educational Psychology 72.4 (2002), 513-529. This article shares that in the past, people with Down Syndrome have never had the chance to learn to read. Now, many kids with this disablilty are able to get in education, which led to a study. This is a study done on the development of people with Down Syndrome over a period of time. The article shares information on longituninal study that tested the development of reading, language, and memory skills. The article concludes that reading has no effect on the enhancement of language and memory development in children with Down Syndrome.

National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. "Alcohol Alert." NIAAA Publications. Oct. 2007. Web. 14 Nov. 2010. In March of 2007, the Surgeon General released a report on how to prevent and reduce underage drinking. The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism's Underage Drinking research provided much of the scientific information found in that document. This website provides graphs and the goals of the production of the Surgeon Generals document and also includes statistics graphs that show the data clearly. The stance of the government against targeting minors is made clear by this document and it is extensively trying to make this clear throughout the reading.

Jernigan, David H., Joshua Ostroff, and Craig Ross. "Alcohol Advertising and Youth: A Measured Approach." Journal of Public Health Policy 26.3 (2005): 312-25. Web. 16 Nov. 2010. This source is focused on measuring the statistics of how much children and minors ranging from twelve to twenty are exposed to alcohol. In depth and through facts, it discusses how much money is being poured into alcohol advertisement, as well as the unmeasured portions which are not able to be fully accounted for. Different methods and results are also talked about giving much information about the business of marketing to adults as well as children.

Wei, J.Z. (2010, December). An analysis on media literacy of Sport majors. Journal of Beijing Sport University, Vol. 33 Issue 4, p91 4p. Retrieved from http://web.ebscohost.com

Pheonix House."Facts On Tap." factsontap.org. MetLife Foundation, n.d. Web. 22 Nov. 2010 This article provides a number of "sobering statistics" that show the negative outcomes of drinking. Drinking myths and peer pressure are both explained and discussed. The amount of money a college students spends on alcohol is also shown. This is an informational and awareness website for college students and their parents.

"International Students Contribute $17.6 Billion to U.S. Economy" NAFSA: Association of International Educators. Web. 2008-2009 Compiled Data This data sheet from NAFSA shows a compilation of data summing the amount of money spent and contributed to the U.S general economy from International student Education. IT holds most of the information in Pdf format thus making it more easily assessable.

Ho, Wai-Yip. "Teaching Islam to educate multiethnic and multicultural literacy: seeking alternative discourse and global pedagogies in the Chinese context." Asian Ethnicity 9.2 (2008): 77-95. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 16 Nov. 2010. This article focuses on the importance of the assimilation of the Islamic religion in liberal arts education. Living in a post 9/11 society, it is important to educate in order to correct global misunderstandings about the Islamic religion. The failure to teach Islam as a world religion has resulted in ignorance about the role of this religion in world history. Scholars have criticized that the misunderstandings about Islam, and present global conflicts are due to inaccurate media portrayals and the lack of education within schools. While Islam is a peaceful religion, the media has been shaping a negative stereotype of associating Muslims with violence. This article focuses on this understudied issue within Asia and attempts to incorporate this information to Chinese students in Eastern Asia.

Levinson, Edward M., and Denise L. Ohler. "Transition from High School to College for Students with Learning Disabilities: Needs, Assessment, and Services." The University of North Carolina Press, Oct.-Nov. 1998. Web. 22 Nov. 2010. This article talks about how the number of students going to college with learning disabilities is at an all-time high. It talks about requirements for colleges to help these students out. The article stresses how the transition is often a difficult one for these students. It also provides information about how the universities can best help the students with the transition. The article says one of the main causes for the problems students with learning disabilities face is the abundance of free time.

Roblyer, M.D., et al. "Findings on Facebook in Higher Education: A Comparison of College Faculty and Student Uses and Perceptions of Social Networking Sites." The Internet and Higher Education 13, no. 3 (2010): 134-140. Electronic Journal Center. Web. 21 Nov. 2010. This article speaks about the reluctance there is to move forward with the times and adopt new technological innovations. This reluctance from teachers may be from the fact that they believe that Facebook is the same as email, just a way to communicate, and see no reason for change. The article also agrees with the counter in that educational institutions see Facebook as a way to communicate with their students, and do just that. They see it as a way to almost relate with their students and to keep them informed. It also talks about how big of an influence social networks and the Internet are in students lives and how beneficial it is to integrate it into learning in the classroom. The article addresses the ways colleges are using Facebook to connect.

"Students with Disabilities Preparing for Postsecondary Education." U.S. Department of Education. Sept. 2007. Web. 22 Nov. 2010. The article provides what differences one should expect between high school and college for students with learning disabilities. It provides answers to common questions about colleges and disability services. It informs the reader that they must provide documentation to prove they have a disability. The college does not have have to pay for the tests so students are on their own. However, the services the college provides are free to the students with documentation of a disability.

Neuschmidt, Oliver, Juliane Barth, and Dirk Hastedt. "Trends in gender differences in mathematics and science (TIMSS 1995-2003)." Studies in Educational Evaluation 34.2 (2008): 56-72. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 22 Nov. 2010. There has been a study the gender gap in math and science in the 8th grade from 1995 to 2003. Throughout the years the gap a narrowed but only in science. We have seen an improvement within physics and chemistry. They did see that there had been a change in math but not by much. The education systems want to change this gap so that everyone is on the same level. After this study, they found that the information was helpful.

Temertzoglou, Ted. "Physical Literacy: Teach Them to Fish, Feed Them for Life." Physical & Health Education Journal 76.1 (2010): 36-39. SPORTDiscus with Full Text. EBSCO. Web. 10 Nov. 2010. Physical education teachers can use many different teaching methods to effectively inform students about physical literacy. It is explained in the article that quality physical education programs give the best opportunity to develop physically literate students. Students need to gain physical at a young age in order for them to exercise effectively and safely throughout their sporting careers.